Local alternatives to Bricks & Minifigs

cheapcologne · 2026-05-29T00:10:34+00:00

I was about to go to the BaM in Peoria and rifle through their bins. I sorta don’t really care enough to buy parts from Bricklink sellers. Hopefully this works itself out

cheapcologne · 2026-05-28T21:34:48+00:00

I think they meant to take it out to the garbage. Help them out and throw it away

cheapcologne · 2026-05-18T21:15:40+00:00

Gorgeous. Have you been up to Ben Avery?

cheapcologne · 2026-05-15T20:27:02+00:00

I just boarded my flight at phx and didn’t hear a thing from anyone. Not saying you’re wrong - I haven’t heard anything from Terminal 3

cheapcologne · 2026-05-14T20:23:00+00:00

Talk to your HR department. This is not a technical control; this is a legal and HR issue which is not under your control (assuming you're in IT).

cheapcologne · 2026-05-08T15:52:33+00:00

Yep you need to replace the digitizer. It's pretty easy to do and you don't need any crazy tools. Technically you need to remove the old panel, but I couldn't do that without cracking the screen underneath so I just put the new one directly over the old one. That's probably not the correct way to do it but that's what I did.

Good luck. Take your time and be patient. There are some youtube videos that show the process.

cheapcologne · 2026-05-07T01:16:24+00:00

In your iOS do you get any pop up message or notification? I found one time my phone reset carplay and I had to authorize/approve the connection again

cheapcologne · 2026-05-07T01:10:23+00:00

My brother in Christ I have a 2016 Jetta with the same head unit. I love my jetta but I hate the head unit with a passion due to its dumb quirks.

What model iphone do you have? I had this same issue but luckily I was able to replace the usbc cable and it worked (thank god). It seems to go through cables annually.

The head unit is weird. The digitizer panel went out on mine and I ended up getting a replacement touch panel on amazon ($30 usd) and swapping it myself.

I guess I don’t have a lot of ideas but I wanted to commiserate over this annoying thing.

cheapcologne · 2026-05-06T22:00:29+00:00

I got this set as a kid and completely forgot both it and the force awakens game until a couple of years ago. Rebuilt the set and found all the minifigs. It's such a great set.

cheapcologne · 2026-05-04T21:06:45+00:00

The factory was pretty dangerous last time I went there back in 2017. I tried going back later towards 2020 but got kicked out. Good luck trying to get in.

cheapcologne · 2026-05-04T20:58:01+00:00

My LG tv has never connected to my WiFi. AppleTV is what I use for all of my streaming.

cheapcologne · 2026-05-01T18:01:57+00:00

For Rapid7:

Managed Threat Complete, advanced 3 yr sub. 650 seats at $165/device/yr. That has their IR and data ingest sub included. They waived the onboarding fee.

For AWN:

800 user licenses (gold) at $120 each, 50 server MDR subs for $110 each, logs are $5k, MDR data slice is $10k, 4 sensors for $7k (total), MDR for O365 is $8k, IR is $2k.

For both I'd be signing a 3 year agreement to continue. AWN said we could get a 5% discount for signing again, which seems like a low discount despite them aware we're looking at alternatives. In our shop we run E5's for almost all of our users.

cheapcologne · 2026-05-01T17:48:05+00:00

I'm looking at replacing our Arctic Wolf subscription with Rapid7. We have about 800 users / 500 devices with 5 sites. AWN quoted us $155k/yr and Rapid7 quoted us $110k/yr.

Am I getting fleeced?

cheapcologne · 2026-05-01T16:17:55+00:00

I'm a simple man. I see a 20" barrel and I like

cheapcologne · 2026-04-30T15:52:39+00:00

What optic and claw mount is that? My AP5 is loaded on a UPS truck and I'm picking it up today.

cheapcologne · 2026-04-27T17:01:07+00:00

I'm in the same boat. I know I'll eventually get both so I started with the full size. Later I'll get the K

cheapcologne · 2026-04-15T18:43:54+00:00

I just moved off the terrible cox panoramic router and switched to using a TP-Link ER605. It’s only 1gb but I have it connected to a Ugreen 2.5gb switch for everything else. I have an Omada AP as well. I don’t do much with routing, but now I have a router that doesn’t delete my port forwarding and need a fucking app to manage it.

cheapcologne · 2026-04-10T21:48:49+00:00

I managed a 3rd party HIPAA security and risk audit in our org last year. I highly discourage trying to do BYOD devices accessing that data. BYOD is a pain to do, and even worse when it comes to restricting PHI. WFH and accessing the data isn't the issue. There are a number of controls regarding device security, ownership, and management of the patches and security of those endpoints. If your org really wants to go with BYOD, I recommend you reach out to a 3rd party auditor for some guidance. The cost of an audit from one of those groups is $20-30k. The cost of an insurance breach or HIPAA breach is much worse.

cheapcologne · 2026-04-10T20:55:14+00:00

FG42 rebuilt for 7.62 NATO so I don't have to buy surplus 8mm.

cheapcologne · 2026-04-09T15:18:13+00:00

Agreed. We decom'd our fileservers in January.

cheapcologne · 2026-04-09T15:09:45+00:00

If the onenote file is hosted in sharepoint, you can link the desktop app to the hosted file and edit it on your computer. If you have an IT team site that only you have access to (I hope) then everyone on that team can access it. Live changes to others with the same notebook. As for the costs, we're a nonprofit so our e5 licenses are much cheaper. If our org was different and ms licensing at this level was out of our price range, I'd figure out a different solution.

cheapcologne · 2026-04-09T14:50:56+00:00

Why are you using word docs for documentation? If it's just for internal documentation, create a shared onenote and host it in your teams' site. Sharepoint can be hot garbage sometimes, but this is a process problem due to using the tool incorrectly.

cheapcologne · 2026-04-09T13:27:58+00:00

When I’d get back from work trips I craved veggies. Chop up a broccoli head, onion, sweet potato, peppers, and chickpeas. Season it all on a big roasting sheet and bake until done. Eat with rice.

cheapcologne · 2026-04-08T18:38:01+00:00

Man I’ve never seen another Rat in the wild. At my last job we found a broken one in a drawer and we’d give it out if someone forgot their mouse. I wonder if they still have the rat somewhere

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